Twitter Scraper
Pricing
$1.50 / 1,000 tweets
Twitter Scraper
Twitter Scraper searches and extracts data from Twitter (with historic data from 2006) - parses and converts the data to structured formats: HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel and XML.
5.0 (1)
Pricing
$1.50 / 1,000 tweets
61
Monthly users
42
Runs succeeded
>99%
Last modified
6 months ago
You can access the Twitter Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=microworlds/twitter-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Twitter Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Twitter Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Twitter Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "searchTerms": [
8 "apify"
9 ],
10 "searchMode": "live",
11 "maxTweets": 1000,
12 "maxTweetsPerQuery": 1000,
13 "maxRequestRetries": 6,
14 "handle": [
15 "@cnn"
16 ],
17 "urls": [
18 "https://twitter.com/search?q=gpt&src=typed_query&f=live"
19 ]
20},
21 "name": "microworlds/twitter-scraper"
22 }
23}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Twitter Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "microworlds/twitter-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per resultThis Actor is paid per result. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for each dataset of 1,000 items in the Actor outputs.
Price per 1,000 items
$1.50
